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to get admitted to one of Davy's lectures at the Rojal Institution. It ap- 

 pears that at this time he formed a resolution of losing no opportunity that 

 should present itself to enable him to take the office of a lecturer on 

 chemistry. 



In the autumn of 1805 he drew up an account of some experiments on 

 Guaiacum resin. This formed the subject of a paper presented by Mr. 

 Hatchett, and read before the Royal Society on the 19th of December. 

 It was printed in the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1806. He now became 

 acquainted with Sir Joseph Banks. He was frequently consulted by Sir 

 Everard Home on chemical and physiological questions ; and by the advice 

 of Sir Everard he was entrusted with the analysis of the calculi then in 

 the collection of the College of Surgeons. The results were communicated 

 in a letter to Sir Everard, which was read before the Royal Society on the 

 19th of May, 1808, and published in the Transactions with some observa- 

 tions by Sir Everard Home. Two other papers relating to the state and 

 quantity of alcohol in fermented liquids were published in the Transactions 

 for 1811 and 1813. For these he was presented with the Copley Medal 

 in 1813. 



The winter of 1808 was an important epoch in Mr. Brande's life. He 

 being then in his 21st year, commenced lecturing, and gave two courses of 

 lectures on pharmaceutical chemistry at Dr. Hooper's Medical Theatre in 

 Cork Street, Burlington Gardens. These lectures were so well received 

 that Mr. Brande was invited in the ensuing autumn to join the new 

 Medico- Chemical School established by Mr. "Wilson in Windmill Street. 

 Dr. Cooke and Mr. Brande lectured there on alternate mornings on physic 

 and chemistry ; but the weight of the entire course fell chiefly on Mr. 

 .Brande. Dr. Cooke withdrew from the lectures, and in 1813 Mr. Brande 

 joined Dr. George Pearson, who gave medical lectures at his house in George 

 Street. Mr. Brande gave a course of lectures on Materia Medica at Dr. 

 Pearson's, and at the same time continued the course of Chemistry at the 

 small laboratory which he had fitted up in Windmill Street. 



On the 13th of April, 1809, being then only 21 years of age, Mr. Brande 

 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and took his seat on the 20th of 

 that month. This at once brought him in contact with all the leading 

 scientific men of the day, including Cavendish, the elder Herschel, Maske- 

 lyne, and Wollaston. To all these he soon became intimately known. 



On the 4th of November, 1812, Mr. Brande accepted the appointment of 

 Professor of Chemistry and Superintending Chemical Operator to the Apo- 

 thecaries' Company. This gave him the opportunity of remodelling many 

 of their pharmaceutical processes, and of raising them to the level of the 

 improved state of chemistry. There can be no doubt that J\Ir. Brande 

 aided in an important degree in resuscitating the character of the Society 

 and giving to it a scientific status. The late Mr. Hennell was his pupil. 

 Mr. Brande was made Professor of Materia IMedica, and he delivered an- 

 nually a course of lectures on that subject. 



